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Refuge. "Thou haven of refut." [Obs.] Chaucer.

The quality of being refutable.

Admitting of being refuted or disproved; capable of being proved false or erroneous.

Act of refuting; refutation.

The act or process of refuting or disproving, or the state of being refuted; proof of falsehood or error; the overthrowing of an argument, opinion, testimony, doctrine, or theory, by argument or countervailing proof. Same of his blunders seem rather to deserve a flogging than a refutation. Macaulay.…

Tending tu refute; refuting.

evidence, or countervailing proof; to prove to be false or erroneous; to confute; as, to refute arguments; to refute testimony; to refute opinions or theories; to refute a disputant. There were so many witnesses in these two miracles that it is impossible to refute such multitudes. Addison.

One who, or that which, refutes.

Incapable of being refuted or disproved; indisputable. -- Ir`re*fut"a*ble*ness, n. -- Ir`re*fut"a*bly, adv.

Overthrowing; defeating; -- applied to Plato's refutative dialogues. Enfield.

to meet successfully by way of explanation, argument, or justification, and the like; to refute. No man was able to answer him a word. Matt. xxii. 46. These shifts refuted, answer thine appellant. Milton. The reasoning was not and could not be answered. Macaulay.

Capable of being answered or refuted; admitting a satisfactory answer. The argument, though subtle, is yet answerable. Johnson.

To make void; to annul or vacate; to refute. How can these grants of the king's be avoided Spenser.

The act or process of confuting; refutation. "For the edification of some and the confutation of others." Bp. Horne.

To overwhelm by argument; to refute conclusively; to prove or show to be false or defective; to overcome; to silence.

To prove or show to be false; to confute; to refute. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

Capable of being confuted and disproved by argument; refutable. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

Direct; proving directly; -- applied to reasoning, and opposed to elenchtic or refutative.

To prove or to refute by proof; to clear (one's self). [Obs.]

The act of disaffirming; negation; refutation.